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- dumfriesshire/cumbria
Good minds think alike Dr D - your set up is very similiar to mine in layout - maybe as a result of the old mothership threads
We scrape the passage way 3 x per week as it is 160ft run and end up with 2 handler buckets full each time.Can spread straw with the chopper over the barrier with some dropping onto the passageway but if it is really windy we reverse down because the midden wall is at one end. However we use a lot of wood chip bedding as well which we drive into the pens with when cattle are shut into the feed pass.
I designed the wide space between the buildings to give room for a handling system that should go in this summer and to give more air flow.
Yes straw bedded looks expensive against slurry systems but it is cheaper to build, you can change building use easier and the value of solid manure v slurry for land improvement should not be under estimated.BUT looking to the future my sheds would accomadate 2 rows of cubicles each if circumstances change.
We scrape the passage way 3 x per week as it is 160ft run and end up with 2 handler buckets full each time.Can spread straw with the chopper over the barrier with some dropping onto the passageway but if it is really windy we reverse down because the midden wall is at one end. However we use a lot of wood chip bedding as well which we drive into the pens with when cattle are shut into the feed pass.
I designed the wide space between the buildings to give room for a handling system that should go in this summer and to give more air flow.
Yes straw bedded looks expensive against slurry systems but it is cheaper to build, you can change building use easier and the value of solid manure v slurry for land improvement should not be under estimated.BUT looking to the future my sheds would accomadate 2 rows of cubicles each if circumstances change.